About Overstock Trader
Overstock Trader provides inventory solutions for businesses looking to recover top value from excess, surplus, and obsolete inventory. With more than 15 years of secondary market experience, we’ve developed the expertise, relationships, and market knowledge to evaluate every opportunity and recommend the recovery strategy that delivers the best outcome.
Every opportunity is handled discreetly and professionally, with a focus on protecting brand value, preserving existing sales channels, and maximizing recovery.
$500M+
Excess Inventory Liquidated
15+ Years
Secondary Market Experience
750+
Brands and Retailers Served
2,000+
Deals Completed
Our Story
Gregg Schwartz speaking at ASD Market Week 2026 on trends shaping the excess inventory, liquidation, and resale industries.
What started as a side hustle buying inventory closeouts has grown into one of the most trusted names in the excess inventory space. Gregg Schwartz founded Overstock Trader with a simple belief: that brands deserve a smarter, more discreet way to navigate excess, surplus, and closeout inventory challenges, recovering top value while protecting brand equity and avoiding channel conflict. Our approach is consultative, focused on building long-term relationships rather than one-off transactions. In an industry that largely operates behind the scenes, we work transparently.
At its core, the business is built around a strong industry network. Gregg Schwartz launched the Overstock Trader LinkedIn community in 2011, which has grown to nearly 10,000 members and remains one of the most active networks in the closeout and overstock industry. His approach has always been grounded in transparency, integrity, and doing good business, values that have shaped how Overstock Trader operates and the reputation it has built with brands and buyers alike.
Before focusing full time on inventory solutions, Gregg worked as a fraud examiner and fraud prevention consultant, including work with EY, where he earned his Certified Fraud Examiner designation. That background informs his detailed approach to deal vetting and transaction integrity, setting Overstock Trader apart from traditional liquidators.
Where traditional liquidators offer a single exit path, Overstock Trader brings a global reach across off-price retail, discount wholesale, export, flash sale platforms, and incentive gifting channels. Depending on the deal, we work as a direct buyer or on a revenue share basis, giving sellers flexibility in how they want to work with us. Brands come to Overstock Trader when they need a partner who understands both sides of the transaction, moves quickly, and does business the right way.
How It Works
Working with Overstock Trader is straightforward. Whether we act as a direct buyer or work on a revenue share basis, the process starts the same way.
Send us a manifest or breakdown of what you have, quantities, condition, category, and location. That’s all we need to get started, no lengthy applications or upfront commitments required.
Within 24 to 48 hours, you will know where you stand. Depending on the inventory, we will either come back with a direct purchase offer or outline how we would approach placement through our network and buyer relationships.
If we are buying directly, we work out payment terms that fit your situation. If we are working on a revenue share basis, we go to market on your behalf, presenting options as they develop while you stay in control throughout.
Once a path is agreed on, we manage the process from placement to pickup. You get your warehouse space back, your capital moving, and a partner who handled it discreetly and professionally.
What Sets Us Apart
Overstock Trader works with clients ranging from small distributors to large manufacturers and retailers. What brings them back is not just results. It is how we operate.
Unlike a pure broker, we can purchase your inventory outright, giving you certainty and speed when you need capital back fast. When a direct purchase is not the right fit, we work on a revenue share basis, finding the right home for your goods while keeping your interests aligned with ours.
Our buyer network includes off-price and discount retailers, wholesale distributors, export buyers, bin store operators, flash sale platforms, incentive and gifting companies, and independent resellers across every major product category. For hard to place products, we can also tap into our own LinkedIn group, the industry’s largest overstock and liquidation community with nearly 10,000 members, opening doors that most buyers simply do not have access to.
Discretion is not a courtesy, it is a commitment. We do not use auctions, public marketplaces, or any channel that could compromise your pricing strategy or brand reputation. Our clients maintain control throughout the process, and we never disclose their information.
This is an industry that typically operates in secrecy. We work differently. We are open, honest, and direct in every dealing, because trust is what turns a single transaction into a long-term relationship.
We understand the intricacies of the secondary market and bring established relationships, pricing expertise, and industry insight to every engagement. Our approach is consultative, and our goal is to maximize recovery while protecting the equity you have built in your products.
Surplus inventory is often a sensitive subject. These are products built from real effort and real investment, not leftovers gathering dust, and we treat them that way.
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Case Studies
Since 2011, we’ve helped brands solve complex inventory challenges through discreet, controlled, high-recovery liquidation. Select a case to see the challenge, the approach, and the results.
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Who we Serve
Manufacturers
Wholesalers & Distributors
Retailers
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